nobody likes you. nightline is next. goodnight. hi u mama jarks doesn't, a lifetime in the making, getting down do business. >> after all this time, the president still doesn't have a >> after 36 years in the senate, eight years as vice president, and two failed runs for the oval office, his moment at the dnc. flanked by his running mate and allies, nailed the road to election day. did this celebration boost support for the democratic ticket? >> this special edition of "nightline," your voice, your vote starts right now. >> good evening, thank you for joining us.

after nearly 50 years in politics, joe biden tonight wrapping up the last day of the democratic national convention and the biggest night of his career in public service, delivering the acceptance speech for his party's nomination. let's get to mary bruce in delaware where biden made his delired the most important speech of his political life. in deeply-passionate remarks he promised to unite the country and lead america out of what he described as this chapter of darkness, and he says the end of that chapter starts tonight. he cassays his priority will be getting control of the pandemic, something the current president is failing to do, failing to protect this nation. he promised to be a commander in chief americans can trust. he said it's time too root out systemic racism, accepting the

30ears i the. as fireworks rained down he was wearing his mask, but byron, you could tell he was smiling underneath. >> our thanks to mary. now more on joe biden's big night. here's my "nightline" co-anchor, juju chang. >> reporter: more thans after former vice president joe biden began his marathon presidential race. >> whee'll choose hope over fea. >> reporter: this was the moment he'd been waiting for. >> so it's with great honor and humility, i accept this nomination for president of the united states of america. but while i'll be a democratic candidate, i will be an american president. i'll work hard for those who didn't support me, as hard for them as i did for those who did vote for me. >> reporter: capping off a convention unlike any other, all virtual, all remote, yet another

reminder of the way covid-19 has changed our lives. >> the current president's cloaked america in darkness for much too long. too much anger. too much fear. too much division. here and now, i give you my word. if you entrust me with the presidency, i will draw on the best of us, notor. light, not the darkness. >> reporter: over the four days of the convention, democrats pulling out all the stops, focussing on one message. donald trump must not be reelected >> trump hasn't grown into the job because he can't. >> reporter: many speakers highlighting biden's humanity. his granddaughters spoke of his love of ice cream. >> eating it in the freezer so my grandmother can't see. he hides it. >> reporter: and encouraging him to run. >> he thought we were calling a meeting to sort of discuss whether we wanted him to, but

really, we calling him to get in that race. >> we just knew he had to run, and we weren't going to take no as an answer. >> reporter: then there was braden harrington, the little boy who stutters just like biden once did. >> did was really amazing to hear that someone like me bake vvvvvv vice president. >> i'm very excited to present to you a group of people that ran in the 2020 democratic primary against joe biden. you can think of this as survivor on the out interviews of all the people who got voted off the island. >> reporter: it was a pinnacle moment of unity as virals joined forces for the nominee. >> everything he does becomes the new regiasonable. everyone's going to follow his lead. >> this is clearly theos history of this country, and joe

biden, you have a human being who is empathetic, who is honest, who is decent. and at this particular moment in american history, my god, that is something that this country absolutely needs. and all of us, whether you're progressives, moderates or conservatives have got to come together to defeat this president. >> reporter: a major highlight of the week, biden's historic vice presidential pick. >> i accept your nomination. >> reporter: kamala harris, the first black and asian-american woman to be a major party nominee for the second-highest office in the land. >> so let's fight with conviction. let's fight with hope. let's fight with confidence in ourselves and a commitment to each other. >> reporter: biden served in the senate for 36 years. this is his third run for the presidency. after his failed 2008 bid,

barack obama chose biden as his running mate. despite his impressive career, biden's life has been marred by tragedy. his wife and daughter killed in a car crash as a young senator, and then in 2015, his son beau lost his battle with cancer. >> my dad has always been there for me, my brother and my sister every day. so i have something to ask of you. be t w for me. >> joe biden has had so much pain in his life, and it's so much a part of his political narrative, that he's in danger of exploiting it and of seeming fake, but for most voters, he never does. and that really is his selling point. >> reporter: earlier today, steve bannon, trump's former campaign manager and chief strategist in the white house arrested. bannon and three others and fra, accused of personally profiting off a scheme to raise money to

build the border wall,trump saying he never liked the build the wall campaign. >> when i read about it i didn't like it. i said this is for government. this isn't for private people. >> reporter: bannon has pled not guilty to the charges. >> you know, i think the democrats are going to hammer away at the sheer number of former trump associates, including former campaign managers, who've ended up in trouble with the law. >> reporter: in a rare move by a sitting president, trump appeared this afternoon on the campaign trail in biden's home state of pennsylvania. >> he abandoned pennsylvania. >> reporter: his appearance underscoring just how important this swing state will be in the battle for the presidency.bl to house? it all hinges on this man as his supporters sbratd outside. >> love is more powerful than hate, hope is more powerful than fear and light is more powerful than dark. this is our moment, this is a battle we will win, and we'll do

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"nightline," your voice, your vote. here now, linsey davis with our powerhouse political round table. >> good evening, everyone. we are joined now by chris christie, the former governor of new jersey. rahm emmanuel, the former mayor of chicago. yvette simpson and sarah fagen. the moment joe biden had been hoping for, for more than 30 years came true tonight. rahm emmanuel, did he rise to the occasion? >> yes, he rose to the occasion, and more importantly not just for him but for the country, giving a sense of purpose, a plan, a very specific plan, but also one of these type of speeches, you get a chance to

lift the hood and look inside. and he gave people a chance to see what motivates him, what is his purpose in life, and give them a purpose on this mission. so i think he did a very, very good job for the speech and more importantly to set out the parameters of the campaign and a quality of the plan. >> at 77 years old, biden is the oldest presidential nominee, governor christie, do you think his i factor? >> his age will be an issue in the race, no question. but he's been saved from that to a great extent because of the covid-19 crisis. we haven't seen people out there day after day campaigning. he's been home in wilmington for months. but as for tonight, i think, listen, he brought great energy to the speech i thought. but he didn't bring a lot of specifics, and i think that's the biden game plan. don't bring a lot of specifics. sit on the lead that he obviously has right now and try

to hope that he can just ride it out without giving a lot of specifics. the president's job next week is to draw him out. and if he doesn't do that, he's going to be in big trouble. >> biden has had an enthusiasm problem among democrats, while the latest poll shows a rise for biden in enthusiasm, he's still lagging far behind trump in that area. yvette, would you say you've seen anything in the past week that changes that? >> you know, i think today was a confidence builder for us. we were worried that he would not appear as strong or consistent as we needed him to be. i think the fact that he brought everybody into the room, the fact that he directly addressed racism in his speech and didn't avoid it, we're really good indicators that he's actually ecic missg,paicar aroun cminal . throesve t sako the gll expected and mbe

a little more from joe biden. >> as far as the democrats this week, i think they made a case for joe biden but a case against donald trump. do you feel that the trump campaign is feeling the heat at this point? >> well, look, the whole week has been focussed on the democratic party and what they stand for, and so, you know, it's not unusual for a party to see a bump out of a convention. i think it's going to be smaller out of this convention, because of the basically the six to eight-point gap in the race today. however, i think next week is about republicans and about what donald trump stands for. and he's got to doe imrtant things nex week.hen. he's got to talk about the things his administration has done that have helped. record-pacing vaccination research. he also has to talk about the democratic party and what joe biden believes, and increasingly, the party has moved to the left, they're becoming more and more out of

the mainstream of where the center right public is. and he has to draw that out, and he's got to point it out. >> yvette, you said people want to see something they can vote for, not just the attacks and criticism on president trump. did you hear anything to vote for? >> i didn't hear anything i haven't heard from the party before. but we knew that. he didn't hurt himself today. we saw him strong. we saw him passionate. the disagreement we have is who he should have been speaking to. i think he should have been speaking to the 42% of folks who didn't show at all in 2016. those are the people we're going to go after in the progressive movement. we're going to try to inspire people who didn't show up, the 95 million people who didn't show up to vote who are eligible to vote. i don't know that this convention did that. i'm not sure that it did. but we will do the work. the work starts tomorrow. >> what the speech showed is that's not who he's trying to reach out to. >> right. >> if you're a progressive in

the democratic party, the conclusion you need to come to tonight, biden thinks he's got you. and he's trying to reach out to independents and to disaffected republicans. that's why he wasn't specific tonight. trump's job now is to draw him out and make him say what he's going to do. because i think what he'll do is cause potential divisions in th same time rev up the republican side. >> at a convention speech, you don't lay out a ten-point policy plan. if that was a success, hillary would be president. you all know about a convention speech. it's a more spiritual moment than here's my ten-point plan. >> listen, if, wait a second -- >> chris. >> if he'd been campaigning and laid any specifics and not been in his basement in wilmington for four months it's a different convention. >> only for one reason. he's going into this process ten points up, the highest of any

challenger in the history of the united states. he's higher than anybody. he's actually run a very good campaign. he's got progressives and biden republicans and everybody in betwee >>haist. mthsn' onreonsdran tcranton, h doesn't want you to know about the senate intelligence committee, steve bannon and what his tax returns are going say. the reason he's doing what he's doing is to distract from the things people are really tired about, about him. >> i thinks chris and rahm make good points. >> the middle child. >> i am the middle child. >> i'm making a point. >> i'm a middle child. don't be a middle child. >> but rahm is right. a convention speech tends to be higher level, loftier, big dreams for the country. but chris is also right. biden hasn't really been tested on this campaign yet. because of the covid crisis he has been in delaware.

that is not sustainable. this campaign is now on, starting next friday, when these conventions are both past. day in, day out, the press is going to engage biden, and he's going to have to talk daily. so we'll see if he can withstand the pressure. >> governor christie, a question for you, we've heard multiple times tonight about the idea that this is a fight to restore the soul of america. does it concern you at all that ma there may be some republicans who decide, yes, this is not about policy but character and empathy andecency. is thaorry. they efftive aum abouth df joe th doo a j at neo ishifthis to policy. because, whe t policytymerin people, especially in those swing states are right of center folks.

and are going to say you know what? i'm not for the green new deal, i'm not for medicare for all. i'm not for big expansion of the federal government. i'm not for a $3 trillion tax increase. you're right, linsey, if we fight, as republicans, if we fight this battle on the turf joe biden talked about tonight, he's going to win. we've got to fight this battle on saying, hey, joe, it's time for you to be specific and square with the country. you said you're going to be honest with us, tell us what you're really going to do. >> this is where chris is right. he's done a good job of keeping progressives, moderates in the same tent, and he's actually created a very divfficulty for trump. it's a tactic of a campaign. and i think the real test of this convention won't be raising from ten points up to 12 points up. did people go from anti-trump to pro-biden? and did joe biden close the intensity gap that donald trump

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and i will be your guest host for the night. again. for the third time this summer. you know, when i told jimmy that i'm always happy to fill in for him, i didn't literally mean always. but i do wanna say thanks to jimmy, having to put on pants and haul my ass back to this abandoned house was by far the best birthday present i got. for those of you who don't know, i turned 50 on saturday, which was a lot of fun. we did one of those drive by parties. where i grew up in compton, you didn't want to be associated with a drive by. but this was fun. my friends and family shouted muffled "happy birthdays" from their ca wle weari pso ioof "thed singer." who is that, my mama or chaka khan? and this was an extra special birthday for me, because on friday, i got a star on the